ADDITIONS AND EMENDATIONS ΤΟ ΤΗΣ HISTORY OF THE Universitp and Colleges of Cambridge. PETER HOUSE. H. Vol. II. p. 9, 1. 11. For one Master, &c. The original mode of appointment of the principal officers in the University, was, for the University to choose, and the Bishop of Ely to confirm. Thus, Nov. 7, 1388, W. Colville, D. D. was elected in Cancellarium dicta Universitatis secundum morem et consuetudines ibidem pertinentibus ut antiquitus observatis, &c. The Chancellor appeared before John Fordham, Bishop of Ely, at his manor of Dodyngton; et electionem de se factam per Rev. Patrem predictum vivâ voce nomine totius Universitatis confirmari petiit. MS. Bodl. The same rule was observed in the appointment of officers at Peter House. The Master and Fellows chose, but the Bishop of Ely confirmed, in his double capacity, as the Ordinary of the Diocese, and as the original Founder of the College; and with respect to the latter, the same rule continues to the present day.—And here it may be proper to observe, once for all, that in the public instruments alluded to above, Scholares is synonymous with Socii: thus, Et Scolares Collegii (Petri) præsentabant William Irby in Decret. Licenciat. et Tho. de Castro Bernardi Rector de Cotenham, &c. MS. Bodl. H. p. 20. "I have a MS. in 4to. written by Mr. John Ramsey, "sometime Fellow Commoner of Peter House, containing "the following treatises :-The Author's Life, p. 5. De "Institutione Nobilis Generosi. De Peregrinatione, p. 9. "Catechismus, 13. Prosopopoeias, by Spenser. A Book "of Cæsar's Commentaries, translated, 46. The Praise "of a Country Life. The Genealogy of the Ramseys, 79. "Methodus Studendi, 80. De Obitu—Epitaph. Domina "Ramsey, 95. De Ramseorum Familia. De Oxon. & "Cantab. Carmina.-He describes himself as coming to College in 1601, but withdrew at the coming in of "James I. and at the earnest request of the Honourable Knight Sir John Ramsey, of the King's Bed-Chamber. "But being fond of a retired life, he left court, and travel. "led, though he had a family. He was related to the great "Benefactress of the College, Lady Ramsey.He went a voyage to Guienne, in the continent of America, in "1633." 46 Copied from Blomfield's MSS. in the Bodleian Libr, Copied from Blomfield's first Vol. p. 285. Bodleian Library. E. Lib. MSS. Coll. Caii Cant. N. 21. Assensus regis ad fundationem Collegii Scti. Petri Cant. per Dom. Hugonem Episcopum Eliensem. Edwardus Dei Gratia, Rex Angliæ, Dominus Hiberniæ, et Dax Aquitaniæ, omnibus ad quos presentes Iræ pervenerint Salutem, Dax inclytus Hebrææ Gentis, quem omnipotens ultra capacitatem comprehensionis intellectus humani, prærogativa sapientiæ cœlitus insignivit, promisso sibi a Domino munere, quod optaret, circumspecte considerans sapientiam, terrenis rebus singulis prævalere ipsam expediit: prudenter attendens quod illam omnia bona pariter subsequerentur. Quapropter decet regiam excellentiam, exemplis optimis informatam libenter assensum impartiri, ad facta favorabiliter persequenda, per quæ viri fiant pro utilitate Reipublicæ sapientes: quorum prudentia Regimini regni et sacerdotii providè consulatur: et in his agitatione Studii, Doctrina sapientiæ jugiter amplietur: Nos igitur attendentes venerabilem patrem Hugonem Eliensem Episcopum, proposito laudabili concessesse, quod loco fratrum secularium, in hospitio suo sancti Johannis Canteb. Scholares studiosi fabrogentur, qui secundum regulam Scholarium Oxon. qui de Merton Cognominabantur, in Universitate Canteb. studentes, per omnia conversentur, perpendentes ex hujusmodi studio, per eminentiam sapientiæ posse reipublicæ multa commoda provenire, præfatæ subrogationi, mutationi seu translationi, ex causâ supradictâ faciendæ, nostrum regium assensum præbemus : Nolentes per hoc, quod Elemosyna pauperum ad dictum hospitale confluentium, quæ a sacris prioribusq. Episcopis Elien. Ecclesiæ est antiquitus constituta, in aliquo defraudetur. In cujus rei Testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste Rege apud Burgum xxiiijto die Novembris, anno regni Nostri nono. Ex Rotulo patentium de Anno ixo Regis Edw. 1mi in Turre London. SUPPLEMENT, p. 19, 1. 28. Simeon should be Simmons: besides what is there said, Simmons wrote against the famous Socinian (called the Racovian) Catechism, a work entitled, Increpatio Bar-Jesu, and the Scotch Covenant, and also Letters to several learned Men. Ibid. Insert-David Stokes, D. D. Fel. wrote several theological works: Verus Christianus, Truth's Champion, an Exposition on the Minor Prophets, and some Sermons. He is said also to have assisted Walton in his Polyglott. He was a great royalist, and suffered in the cause. He died May 10, 1669. Ibid. Lazarus Seaman, D. D. 1644, and Master, being put in by the E. of Manchester, on the ejectment of Dr. Cosens. See Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, &c. Part II. p. 152. He was a Leicestershire man, and a student of Emman, Col. which he was obliged to quit, on account of narrow circumstances, He became afterwards a man of eminence among the presbyterians, one of the Assembly of Divines, and also of the Commissioners, who were sent to treat with Charles I. when in the Isle of Wight he was particularly conversant in the subject, which so much exercised the Divines of that age, Church Government, and his arguments on it may be seen in Charles the First's works. Dr. Calamy speaks highly of his abilities and learning, Hist. Eject. Ministers, Vol. II. p. 16; though the only works of his extant are, a Sermon before the Lord Mayor, April 7th, 1650, against Divisions, and a Vindication of the Judgment of the Reformed Churches, concerning Ordination, and the Laying on of Hands, 4to. 1647. Dr. Calamy remarks, that he had a very valuable library, and that it was the first that was sold in England by way of auction, and fetched £700. At the Restoration in 1660, Dr. Seaman was ejected, and Dr. Cosius reinstated; so that Dr. Calamy's date of the time of Dr. Seaman's death (1657) must be an error of the press for 1675.-I have already observed, p. 19 of this volume, that Dr. Seaman's name is not in the Admission Book. Ibid. No less famous as a divine and preacher (a Calvin ist, too), though on the opposite side of the question on Church Government, was, John Standish, B. D. 1664, and Fellow, incorporated also at Oxford; see Wood's Ath. Oxon. Vol. II. p. 1110. He was Rector of Conington, Cambridgeshire, and Chap. in Ordinary to Charles II. He published Sermons, "which prove him to be no ordinary Calvinist," according to Wood, who calls him, afterward, (Fasti, 178) I apprehend incorrectly, Master of Peter-House. He proceeded, afterwards, D. D. He was the second son of David Standish, one of the Vicars General of Peterborough, and died 1686.-There was also another person of some celebrity, of this name, Robert Standish, L. L. D. who received his education at Cambridge; he was parson of Standish, in Lancashire, and died in 1552. He was a Roman Catholic. H. p. 31. Bishop Law was a native of Cartmel, in Lancashire, and was first admitted of St. John's College: after taking the degree of A. B. he was elected Fellow of Christ's. He was presented to the Vicarage of Gray-Stock, 1737, by the University; to the Archdeaconry of Carlisle, 1743; to the Mastership of Peter House, 1754; to the office of Head Librarian of the University, 1760.-By the interest of the Duke of Newcastle, he gained a stall in the church of Durham; and through that of the Duke of Grafton, the Bishopric of Carlisle. He died Aug. 14, 1787, aged 84. -Bishop Law's edition of King's Origin of Ely was only a translation. See further, a Memoir of his Life, in Hutchinson's Hist. of Cumberland, by Dr. Paley, Vol. II. p. 636. H. p. 32. Insert-Miles Atkinson, A. B. was a Yorkshireman, one of several of his family, or name, in that county, distinguish |